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I . feather [ˈfeðər, Brit -əʳ] N

feather
pena f

II . feather [ˈfeðər, Brit -əʳ] VB trans

Usage examples with feather

to feather one's own nest

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English
The mattresses were often filled with pea-shucks, straw, or feathers.
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Huw takes her inside as scratches and feathers appear all over her.
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Wings are black, but the remiges and retrices (flight feathers) are fringed with white.
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The genus name derives from "acro-" (high) and "ptilo-" (feather).
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Each individual feather is banded with lighter and darker colours.
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It is made of leaves, grass and other plant material which is bound together with hair and spider webs and lined with wool and feathers.
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The moult of the flight feathers may be spread out across the year.
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By the early 1980s, he was relying less on feathers and leather, and was producing precious metal jewellery using the lost-wax method.
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The feathers on the wings had pale gray fringes to feathers, giving it a scaled look.
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Fink wore a red feather in his cap to signal his defeat of every strong man up and down the river.
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